The Last Four Things
Paul Hoffman
Top 10 Best Quotes
“...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.”
“Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.”
“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air.”
“Hypocrites,’ replied Cale, ‘I’ve come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are.”
“The heart of a man is a small thing but it desires great matters. It is not big enough for a dog’s dinner but the whole world is not big enough for it. Man spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing. From the lamb he tears its guts and makes his harp resound; from the wolf his most deadly tooth to polish his pretty works of art; from the elephant his tusks to make a toy for his child.(...)And who will exterminate him who exterminates all others?”
“Do you have any idea how mad you sound?’ ‘Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity.’ (...) ‘And?’ ‘Then I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective in reason, how mean his facilities, how ugly in form and movement, in action how like a devil, in apprehension how like a cow. The beauty of the world? The paragon of animals? To me the quintessence of dust.”
“Many are called, few are chosen.”
“Even for the very clever it can be like breaking bones to stand back from something that’s been in front of you all your life.”
“We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.”
“Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.”
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